Anyway, on to mine
I believe that in this meta, there's currently 2 play styles right now, ogerpon HO and gliscor balance. I also believe these 2 are the only S tier mons in this meta. And both deserving of suspect + ban
is impossible to take down (unless your me and everyone crits random tera ice tera blast) sets up everything for free, its a gen 8 mon in a gen 9 world, it has the knock off + toxic combo, it has U-turn, tera allows him to circumvent its typing and once poison, its basically a perfect pivot, this thing alone makes balance the second-best play style in this meta (who was the worst play style)
While easier to take down, it's fast, it's strong, it can bypass everything with encore + Ivy Cudgel crits, sd hits like a truck, it has uturn, knock off, horn leech to take on chip damage. And has great defensive utility for an offensive mon, immunity to water, spore, resistant to rocks
Ogerpon and gliscor right now are like in Kaguya-Sama love is war, where every five minutes they passive-aggressive try to double switch and try to get the other one, if oger miss predicts, gliscor lands toxic, and it's over for her, and if gliscor miss predicts, 1 SD and gliscor has to fucking run
If Oger is Kaguya, Gliscor is shirogane, then
is chika
I think Gholdengo is the third-best Pokémon in the meta, only behind the already mentioned 2, its control over the hazard game is clear as water
"hmm, but he doesn't show up every game" and "there are plenty of spikers"
There's this thing called the 5 monke experiment, it didn't actually happen, but it was a lie with like 30 years, so whatever. The experiment was about putting 5 monkeys, a ladder and at the top of the ladder some bananas, every time one monkey tried to climb up the ladder, everyone was blasted with water. Eventually, the monkeys just stopped from climbing the ladder, they changed one of the monkeys for a new one, and that monkey tried to climb up the ladder, but was beat up by the other monkeys
Why am I telling you people this? Simple, we are the monkeys, the food is more diverse hazard removal, and the stairs are defoggers, the water is gholdengo, we are so brain wired in preparing for the hazard meta, either you're using superman teams, you are packing 2 or even 3 hazard removers, your HO, so you believe you can finish the game before that happens, or your stall, and you just don't care
And this is why Gholdengo is unconventionally broken, the mon itself is easy to counter, and yet its presence is so enforced and hidden,
he is in every game without being in every game. I could talk on and on about this, but I'm gonna save it for a future suspect (I hope there is one)
its not broken, will never be broken, Its the fourth-best Pokémon in the meta don't get me wrong, but its not broken, nothing changed for him since the last time, it just partners well with the chaos of the meta
its not broken, it just partners well with ogerpon-ho
overrated, wait until you see AV Valiant tho, heat
overrated
every time I load up manaphy, I get baited by the wackiest trick scarfer ever. I don't know if it's truly broken, ogerpon would go first to trully know
tera: The higher your ethics are, the less broken you will find tera, because you use it to build, not destroy
I think I have everything, anyway I'm going to the supermarket, you guys want anything?